Dating, Love & Relationships Around The World

Though this online dating site is devoted to relationships between men and women, I just couldn’t resist this very funny video from comedian Chris Rock.  I guess this is still about relationships – but between you and your local police……

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In a new calendar for 2010, gorgeous Latin actors and Latin models are featured in shocking poses sending home eco messages.

The Latin celebrities are hoping their contribution to the calendar will build environmental awareness.

A collaboration between the Azara Foundation and fashion photographer Gaby Herbstein, the calendar, �Huella Ecol�gica� (Ecological Footprint) showcases 12 famous Latin stars representing some of the most important environmental issues of our time.

Ricardo Darin, Alessandra Rampolla, Luciana Salazar, Ronnie Arias, Carla Peterson, Gonzalo Valenzuela and Dante Spinetta, were some of the artists representing global warming, water pollution and air pollution, loss of forests and the advance of deserts, overfishing, the rise of the oceans, species extinction, excesive consumption, diseases and depletion of drinking water.

The calendar and the campaign�s T-shirts can purchased through the website www.vitnik.com and all the money rised will be destined to the work of the foundation.

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Only in Canada would you be required by the Canadian Federal Government to cough up taxes on ill gotten gains.

It seems a RCMP clerk who managed a to steal more than $170,000 during a 19 month spree is now required to pay $21,422 back taxes on the stolen funds. [tag]Revenue Canada[tag] doesn’t give a damn if your earning are legal or not – they want their cut.

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Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s — Captain Condom.

The safe sex superhero and several other caped crusaders will hit the streets of Vancouver next month, when the city hosts the world for the 2010 Olympics.

Behind the marching bands, clowns, condoms on stilts and general three-ring circus is a serious message about harm reduction during the Olympic fun.

A group of local, national and international harm-reduction organizations, dubbed SafeGames 2010, plan to hand out more than 250,000 “SafeKits” when the Olympic Games start next month in Vancouver.

The program, which has the blessing and $20,000 in funding from the City of Vancouver, is modelled after the Salt Lake City’s Safe Games 2002, where volunteers provided support to those visiting Salt Lake City during that city’s Winter Olympics.

Those handing out the safe sex loot will be dressed as “superheroes.” More than 200 outreach workers will distribute condoms, lube, lip balm, hand heaters, glow sticks, and other safety-related stuff at high-traffic intersections, special events and outside bars and hotels.

They also plan to distribute information about responsible drinking and drug consumption, public transportation schedules, and contacts for local support groups.

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A huge Chinese tar sands investment has been formally approved by the Canadian Federal government. Canada and China have signed a deal that will see PetroChina, the market arm of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., investing $1.7 billion in two Canadian tar sands deposits in Alberta.. It’s up to Chinese engineers and managers, now, to make the oil extraction and distribution cost-efficient enough to get the desired financial returns.

Their plan is probably to pump Tar Sands oil over the Rockies, either directly across western Canada, or by routing south and then west toward American ports. You can count your Chinese cookies that the owners and managers of this Chinese project will be doing only the bare minimum for pollution control in Canada.

For Americans, this eliminates the once-comforting notion that they could solidly depend on their ‘friendly neighbor to the north’ (that’s us) to keep the cheap oil flowing to us. Wake up world as now China will get dibs in the event a global oil shortage or a North American oil price dip, relative to the global average. And to add to this, the privileged access to Canada’s massive oil and gas reserves by the US could be disrupted if Washington cancels the NAFTA accord.

The Alberta Tar Sands project has been dubbed by some as the most destructive project on Earth – scarring it visibly from space – there’s no doubt that the tar sands extraction industry has a huge environmental footprint, which even President Obama could not help but acknowledge during his visit to Ottawa early last year.

Did you know?

• Oil sands mining is licensed to use twice the amount of fresh water that the entire city of Calgary uses in a year.

• At least 90% of the fresh water used in the oil sands ends up in ends up in tailing ponds so toxic that propane cannons are used to keep ducks from landing.

• Processing the oil sands uses enough natural gas in a day to heat 3 million homes.

• The toxic tailing ponds are considered one of the largest human-made structures in the world. -The ponds span 50 square kilometers and can be seen from space.

• Producing a barrel of oil from the oil sands produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil.

I’ll try to remember all this the next time I leave one of my three cars running in the driveway to warm up!

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